提升地面机器人单目里程计精度,解决尺度漂移与信息丢失问题
BEV-ODOM2: Enhanced BEV-based Monocular Visual Odometry with PV-BEV Fusion and Dense Flow Supervision for Ground Robots
- 引入密集BEV光流监督和视角-俯视图融合,增强运动估计精度
- 在多个数据集上实现40%的定位误差降低,支持边缘设备实时运行
- 适用于需要高精度定位的自主移动机器人研发与测试
尺度一致的自身运动估计对自主地面机器人至关重要。鸟瞰图(BEV)表示通过提供度量尺度的平面工作空间,自然缓解了单目视觉里程计(MVO)的尺度漂移问题,使6自由度运动估计简化为更鲁棒的3自由度模型。然而,现有基于BEV的方法存在两个关键局限:仅依赖姿态训练导致的稀疏监督信号,以及透视到俯视投影过程中的信息损失。本文提出BEV-ODOM2,一种无需额外标注的增强框架。其创新包括:(1) 直接从3自由度姿态真值构建密集的BEV光流监督,实现像素级指导;(2) 在投影前进行视角-俯视图(PV-BEV)相关性体积计算,保留6自由度运动线索。同时改进旋转采样策略以平衡多样运动模式。在四个具有不同空间尺度的数据集(KITTI、Oxford、NCLT及新收集的ZJH-VO)上评估,相比先前方法定位误差(RTE)降低40%,并在NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin上实现实时推理,验证边缘部署可行性。源代码与ZJH-VO数据集已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scale-consistent ego-motion estimation is fundamental for autonomous ground robots. Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation naturally addresses the scale drift problem of monocular visual odometry (MVO) by providing a metric-scaled planar workspace, enabling the simplification of 6-DoF ego-motion to a more robust 3-DoF model. However, existing BEV-based methods suffer from two key limitations: sparse supervision signals from pose-only training, and information loss during perspective-to-BEV projection. We present BEV-ODOM2, an enhanced framework that addresses both limitations without requiring additional annotations. Our approach introduces (1) dense BEV optical flow supervision constructed directly from 3-DoF pose ground truth for pixel-level guidance, and (2) Perspective View (PV)-BEV fusion that computes correlation volumes before projection to preserve 6-DoF motion cues. An enhanced rotation sampling strategy further balances diverse motion patterns during training. We evaluate on four datasets with varied spatial scales: KITTI, Oxford, NCLT, and our newly collected ZJH-VO benchmark. BEV-ODOM2 achieves a 40\% RTE improvement over prior BEV-based methods, with real-time inference on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin confirming edge deployment feasibility. The source code and the ZJH-VO dataset are publicly released to facilitate future research.
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